#inflexible

In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#always #becomes #demands #every #giving

We must do everything in our power to keep families together, and to use common sense in our immigration laws. Children deserve better than to lose a parent because of an inflexible law. ↗

— Jose Serrano

#better #children #common #common sense #deserve

The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness. ↗

— Marguerite Gardiner

#conscience #escort #flexible #inflexible #politeness

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

#inflexible #may #must #principles

Terror is only justice: prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue; it is less a distinct principle than a natural consequence of the general principle of democracy, applied to the most pressing wants of the country. ↗

— Maximilien Robespierre

#consequence #country #democracy #distinct #general

Inflexible in faith, invincible in arms. ↗

— James Beattie

#faith #inflexible #invincible

Right angles don't attract me. Nor straight, hard and inflexible lines created by man. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

#attract #created #hard #inflexible #lines

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#energy #enough #ethical #hardly #honor

I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know. ↗

— Huston Smith

#assumed #believes #bush #conflict #day

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost. ↗

— Chris Evert

#arrogant #champion #inflexible #kind #self-absorbed